Last year, according to security vendor Secunia, statistics says the no of vulnerabilities detected in commercial software’s found over 15500 in total 3870 Products.

Unfortunately, many vulnerabilities remain open for many weeks, or even years as organizations struggle with bug management. Here are the some of top mistakes usually happens while performing a web vulnerability assessment.

1.   Make sure you have checked the site with all possible angles to find the loop holes for the attacks. Validating team need to test the web applications both with and without the user authentication and with firewall,WAF,IPS controls etcs.,

2.   Depending on old technologies is a serious issue, you’ll be tempted to avoid updating or patching the software. This all lead to be a serious vulnerabilities in the future if its  remaining open for long periods and dramatically increased levels of organizational business risks.

3.   There is a possibilities of the bugs still exists after a complete scanning, there is a chance that something is lurking undetected in your web environment. So, take all necessary steps to eliminate all kind of vulnerabilities and ensure all web application is safe.

4.   Resources: They are plenty of good free tools in a market , that will help to simplify and automate the vulnerability management process.

 

5.   In the vast majority of cases, vulnerability management processes are not something that can simply be ‘tacked on’ to an existing employee’s responsibilities. You can’t simply identify a few security professionals within your organization and assign them ownership of the whole process. We’re talking about a complex, constantly evolving, business critical process, so let’s start treating it like one.

 

6.   Educate your developers with updated technologies, assuming that your developers will learn from their mistakes is not that much acceptable, give your team a much of case studies in vulnerability loop holes. Management need to invest them in a training the developers to the new technologies in a routine periods.

 

7.    Many times the people in the trenches who are performing vulnerability assessments don't have a big-picture view of network topology, so they might not be aware of where internal firewalls, IDS/IPS sensors, and WAN connections sit. This can cause big problems.

 

In the end, avoiding these vulnerability management mistakes comes down to planning.

 

If your process is well planned, well resourced, and well documented, you’ll find problems are kept to a minimum. Sure, things will go wrong now and again, but you’ll be in a very strong position to deal with them.

 

If, as things stand, one or more of these elements is missing from your process, we’d strongly recommend you go back and deal with that.

 

In the long run, it’s much easier to fix your process now than it will be to continually fight the fires caused by lack of planning, resources, or documentation.